Amid its war on Iran the Trump administration has been exploiting emergency waivers to fast-track controversial foreign arms sales to Israel and Gulf states, tossing congressional oversight to the wayside – including pushing deals for weapons that often haven’t been built yet
The World Council of Churches has called on the European Union to impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel over what it described as a war of genocide in the Gaza Strip and violations against Palestinians in the West Bank.
For the past three decades, the US and Israel have signed nonbinding Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) outlining the scope of proposed presidential budget requests to Congress for appropriations of taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel.
Military cargo is flowing through the commercial Oakland Airport to the genocidal Israeli army, Palestine Youth Movement says, concealed from the people of Oakland, their union members, their city officials, and their educators.
The Sumud has come under repeated Israeli drone fire. On Wednesday (September 24), Israeli drones dropped explosives in the vicinity of the ships moored off the island of Crete, but caused no damage or injuries.
Israeli forces kill at least 70 in Gaza on Sat, including at least 31 aid seekers; 387 known dead of starvation; more than one Gaza child killed every hour for 23 months; Israel destroyed ‘90% of Gaza’s infrastructure’; new prison weapons; flotilla news; Hind Rajab film
Rep. Valerie Foushee’s pledge not to accept the pro-Israel lobby’s money comes as the Democratic National Convention weighs a resolution that would call for an arms embargo to Israel and recognition of Palestinian statehood.
Israel kills at least 70 in Gaza; chaos at aid distribution sites; internationally banned weapons; Hamas mulls ceasefire option; new illegal settlements; West Bank news; Mahmoud Khalil and other protest news; more.
Behind a weak joint statement on war crimes in Gaza with the UK, France, and Canada lies a long pattern of political avoidance, legal hedging, & moral evasion.
After 400 days of war and genocide, are the people of Gaza any closer to peace? Is justice nearer? Thanks to the Biden administration, no.